The Gothic Culture?

Question

What do you think a goth is? What does being a goth entail?

Answer 1

I posted this on another question of yours, but sometimes multiple postings get deleted. So, just in case you missed it:
Goth is more a lifestyle or outlook on life than anything. They tend to accept that there are bad things as well as good things in life, rather than 'sweep them under the rug', to say, and pretend they don't exist. They can dress however they want, although many prefer darker colors and more dramatic clothes and makeup, and listen to lots of songs and varied genres of music, which can include but are by no means limited to, new wave, darkwave, ethereal, Celtic, goth rock, punk, postpunk, chants, heavy metal, industrial, Latin, et cetera. Not all are interested in vampires - in fact, relatively few are. Many if not most have good relationships with their parents. Very few have mental or psychological problems. Most are actually quite nice, if a bit saturnine. Very, very, very few are 'satanists' or 'devil worsippers'. Most of the young teenagers who listen to Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, Slipknot, Korn, My Chemical Romance, Drowning Pool, et cetera and wear heavy thick makeup and studded spike collars and bracelets are called 'Mall goths', shop mostly at Hot Topic, and - this is important - they're not real goths. They just seem to think they are. They act disturbed and surly and try to impress/intimidate people. It seldom works, as most are obviously pathetic, and almost all will (thankfully) grow out of it. If you'd like a comprehensive explanation, try visiting goth.net. Some songs that goths might listen to:
Dragonfly (Conjure one mix) - Cruxshadows
Dazzle - Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Passion of Lovers - Bauhaus
Lucretia My Reflection - Sisters Of Mercy
Lullaby - The Cure
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
In Our Angelhood - The Cocteau Twins
Funeral Night - Bella Morte
Deliverance - The Mission UK
Cemetary Gates - The Smiths
Are 'Friends' Electric? - Tubeway Army
Love Is Stronger than Death - The The
Nowhere Girl - B-Movie
Twilight Of The Mortal - Killing Joke
Seconds - The Human League
Indigo Eyes - Peter Murphy
Right Now - The Creatures
Walk on the Moon - Daniel Ash
No Big Deal - Love and Rockets
Fire Woman - The Cult

Answer 2

I am forty four yrs. historical and am no longer, not ever had been and not ever will likely be a "goth". I do nonetheless, have two grownup kids who're "goth" and feature been ever considering that I can bear in mind. They simply began dressing that means and dressed in the make-up and paying attention to that tune all on their possess. I not ever discouraged it. I noticed not anything fallacious with it as they were not preoccupied with dying or something occult that gave the look to be unsafe from my standpoint. I truthfully prompted them to "do their possess factor and be their possess man or woman", They are all grown up now and a few humans name them "freaks", however they simply forget about them and realise that the ones humans are simply scared of anything that's "no longer common" to them. I have a son who wears black eyeliner and has piercings in areas I mostly do not even recognise approximately. My daughter wears not anything however black and dies her hair black and has piercings I mostly do not desire to understand approximately. Just in view that they get dressed the way in which they do does not imply I love them any much less. They're my children and so they imply the arena to me . I'll again them up it doesn't matter what.

Answer 3

Well....judging by your avatar.....i'd say you are emo and not goth. Just a random observation